British and living in the UK - my experience is quite the opposite actually, never read HG Wells but have read 20,000 Leagues, Around the World, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth multiple times, though I come from quite a francophone family so that might have had an influence.

Obviously I’m aware of Wells and his works, but I’d say Verne is just as culturally familiar here as Wells is

FYI it’s possible to create duplicate keys from pictures of them, so I wouldn’t recommend posting pictures of your keys online

How do you fare in airport scanners?

There are several rivers in England called the Derwent.

One of them flows into the Ouse in Yorkshire, another flows into the Trent in Derbyshire, both of which later combine to form the Humber estuary, so the Humber has two Derwents in it

I’m sure it can’t possibly go wrong

-Were at war with their neighbours for centuries

-Language containing many chhhhh sounds

-Lots of singing

The Welsh are Klingons

Call me a luddite but I still hate it unequivocally

No matter how good the output, it’s still using tons of power and water, it’s still taking work away from real artists, it’s still stealing copyrighted content from real artists, LLMs and image convoluters can and never will be creative, just distilled and derivative of everything they’ve been fed in training

I only have one machine, so I wanna be confident it’ll work before messing around with new OSes

Yeah maybe this is the push to finally learn freecad!

If anyone has experience in running Fusion 360 on wine plz shout up, that’s the last thing I need to work out before switching to Zorin…